Delivery

[desperance]

Is here. Is not any manifestation of passport; I can still not leave the country, tho' the cats are now allowed out of Durance Vile (and oh, how vile it was! The warmest place in the house, with added chilli-aromas and the fridge & larder to challenge their burglarious powers if they got bored - how cruel am I?).

Is books. Is boxful of copies of River of the World, which is now out in paperback, so that all those of you who've been waiting till you could get the full duology in pbk before you bought either may shuffle out your dollars and commit...

Oh, go on. You know you want to. Two paperbacks isn't going to cost you that much. And they're books, you can read them again and again, which by the wonder of mathematics means they actually get cheaper the more times you read them!

*decides not to offer equationary proof*

Comments

[kazdreamer.livejournal.com]

*commits dollars*

Well, pounds anyway... I'm off to Forbidden Planet tomorrow, so hopefully they'll have it in stock.

[julesjones]

My excuse is that I bought the first one in paperback, failed to read it before leaving the US on account of being busy packing, and it has been *eaten* by the shipping container so I have still not read it yet. (I thought I'd found all the boxes of books when the container was unloaded, but clearly one or two boxes escaped and are in the storage unit instead of the too-small flat, as I have none of yours, almost none of the Discworlds, and one or two other items I've noticed an absence of as well.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Excellent news.
Fx: goes away to Amazon to order book.

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

I think the passport comes by ordinary post, actually ... to the best of my recollection . Which seemed vaguely shocking for something so important.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Er, yup. Does it really? I paid the leetle bit extra to have the nice Post Office person be rude about my photo, and I know they send it on by special delivery to the passport people; given how much you have to pay the passport people these days, I was quietly assuming that it would come back the same way. Bah, humbug...

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

I may be wrong, but I think so ...

Reminds me of the morning I opened a scruffy brown A4 envelope, to find a cheque for £15,000 from the building society inside. We'd extended the mortgage, and I had stupidly assumed that they would transfer the money to PK's account, not just generate a humongous cheque and chuck it in the post like that.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

In the light of this, would you like to revisit the answer in your e-mail?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Actually, not at this time. (There is reasons and causes for it.) (Which is a quotation, and I can't remember where from.) (Merry Wives of Windsor. Of course. Google is my friend - but I should've remembered that, I used to know the play by heart. Ah, the sad deleterious workings of entropy...)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

*Feels smug about having bought and read the hardback*.